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Grave Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
- Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.
- Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the…
- Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over…
- The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most…
More Grave Quotes
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,… — Abigail Adams
- Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. — Henry Adams
- They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
- You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture… — Marek Belka
- Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally… — Berkeley Breathed
- Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
- Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. — Georg Buchner
- We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation… — Pearl S. Buck